Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...were raising Cain at a relief office in Jackson, the county seat. One of the Howard boys shot Jerry Combs dead. Three weeks later, Lewis Combs met Sheriff Deaton's one-armed son, Deputy Sheriff Fred Deaton. The Saturday crowd at the Jackson post office saw Lewis Combs pull his gun, saw Fred Deaton do the same with his lone right hand. Lewis Combs wounded Fred Deaton, who killed Lewis Combs. Last March 16, a bus carrying Deputy Sheriff Wilson Deaton passed five men brawling on a roadside near Jackson. A bullet whistled through the bus. Wilson Deaton jumped...
...highly perishable fruit from tree to market without loss. (Apricots must be picked in 14 to 16 hours or the grower stands to lose his year's work.) This month the season for California's migrants begins in earnest. From now through September, maturing crops will pull men over the highways as the sun ripens successively the asparagus, cantaloupes, onions, tomatoes, cherries, pears and apples in midsummer, culminating in the harvest of fruit in the early fall that requires 145,000 seasonal workers in one month. Relatively few are the wandering Joads hired from the highway: to ship...
...murder-mystery suspense, Native Son is no more simply a crime story than was Crime and Punishment. Bigger's murders only pull the trigger of Author Wright's bigger story-the murderous potentialities of the whole U. S. Negro problem...
...first half when Harvard tied the score. The Crimson rallied gamely in the second half and twice cut the Big Red's lead from seven to three points, but it was unable to keep Jim Bennett and Duke Ramsey, Cornell forwards, away from the basket for long enough to pull even again...
However, the Feslermen were able to overcome the handicap of playing in the immense Palestra in Philadelphia and they may still be able to pull another upset out of the fire...